Darknesse Visible - (Piano)

Thomas Adès' Darknesse Visible for piano solo (1992) is a 7-minute explosion of John Dowland's lute song In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1610). No notes have been added; indeed, some have been removed. Patterns latent in the original have been isolated and regrouped, with the aim of illuminating the song from within, as if during the course of a performance.

Adès transforms the piano into an instrument that's alchemically capable of sustaining a continuous line of melody; the technique of ceaseless tremolo that he demands of the player conjures a ghostly shimmer from the instrument.

 

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Adès
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.1998
• EAN: 9780571518043
• ISBN: 978-0-571-51804-3
• No. of pages: 8
• Series: Faber Edition; Faber Edition
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Singing, making music; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Classical, opera, operetta, musical